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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Health Care Reform
A Health Care Reform editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (“Then vs. now”, 09/30/07) bemoans the fact that “Health insurance premiums grew by 78 percent between 2001 and 2007.”  Meanwhile, the Missouri Department of Mental Health budget grew by 157 … Continue reading
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The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (H.R. 3580)
Congress gave final approval Thursday, November 20, 2007  to legislation designed to transform the Food and Drug Administration from a passive monitor to an active detective seeking out medications that have been approved for sale but turn out to be … Continue reading
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Homicide by Psychiatric Hospital Staff Goes Unpunished
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Exposé is Representative of National Restraint Death & Patient Abuse Rickey Dean Wingo was among 115 “suspicious deaths†in Georgia state psychiatric hospitals between 2002-2006, one of the death tolls uncovered by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC). In May … Continue reading
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Scientific Legitimacy of Psychiatry’s “Billing Bible†Increasingly Under Fire
A recent study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry exposes the lack of medical legitimacy behind psychiatric diagnoses. Using the diagnostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychiatry’s billing bible, researchers Michael B. First … Continue reading
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Convicted Psychiatrist Remained on Payroll for Months
According to the Los Angeles Times (Wednesday, 5/9/07), psychiatrist Trey Sunderland, a senior researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and “a lasting symbol of the agency’s entanglements with drug companies,†remained on the federal payroll several months after … Continue reading
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The Rosenhan Experiments – Still Valid Today
In 1972, Stanford psychologist David L. Rosenhan conducted his classic experiments into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis.  Eight people with no prior mental health issues were admitted to 12 different psychiatric hospitals around the country, each manifesting the same … Continue reading
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What Does Mandated Mental Health Parity Pay For?
Skyrocketing Costs, Increased Stigma, More Child Abuse & Fraud An editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (“Wrong Way” Missouri, 8/31/2007) says that, “New U.S. Census Bureau numbers released Tuesday showed that the number of uninsured people in Missouri increased a … Continue reading
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Ritalin stunts growth of children
Long-term risk to children’s health unknown Monday, July 23, 2007 by: Mike Adams New research published in the August, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds that Ritalin, the amphetamine drug used … Continue reading
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